GAF Volunteer Opportunities

The Golden Age Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a volunteer board of directors whose mission is to make Leisure World a better place to live. It is dependent on volunteers to carry out the following programs.

Hospitality Center

The Hospitality Center is open weekdays from 9-11 a.m. in Clubhouse 6. Volunteers work three-hour shifts making and serving coffee, among other duties. Hospitality volunteers are friendly people who love to meet and serve others.

Income Tax Program

The Income Tax program is active from January to mid-April. Trained volunteers work a half-day on one or more days a week making appointments for service, meeting and greeting people, and preparing tax returns.

Mobility Aids Program

Volunteers help shareholders borrow free walkers and wheelchairs owned by the Golden Age Foundation. People staff the call center from home, answering phone messages and returning shareholders’ calls. Volunteers also staff an office from 9-11 a.m. every weekday when shareholders come to borrow and return mobility aids. Most volunteers commit to 1-2 hours a week. Some volunteers go out to apartments to pick up mobility aids that are no longer needed; a current driver’s license and mobility are required for this specific job.

Golden Age Foundation Board of Directors

The GAF is always looking for dynamic people who like to work with others to plan and manage the GAF’s many programs. The best way to start learning about this volunteer role is to attend a monthly board meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of each month on the second floor of the Administration Building.

Document Shredding

Volunteers oversee document-shredding events that are held quarterly.

Battery Recycling

Volunteers retrieve spent batteries from a collection barrel at the Copy and Supply Center in Building 5.

For more information on any of these programs, go to www. goldenagefdn.org or leave message at (562) 431-9589.

—Anna Derby, GAF president